automated teller machine

electronic telecommunications device used to perform financial transactions
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automated teller machine

Summary

automated teller machine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (647 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • automated teller machine is credited with the discovery of John Shepherd-Barron[2].
  • automated teller machine is credited with the discovery of Luther George Simjian[3].
  • automated teller machine is credited with the discovery of Donald Wetzel[4].
  • automated teller machine is a type of self-service machine[5].
  • automated teller machine is a type of automated cash handling[6].
  • automated teller machine's Commons category is recorded as Automatic teller machines[7].
  • automated teller machine's Unicode character is recorded as 🏧[8].
  • automated teller machine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Automated teller machines[9].
  • automated teller machine's Commons gallery is recorded as Automatic teller machine[10].
  • automated teller machine's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as amenity=atm[11].
  • automated teller machine's described by source is recorded as Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, 2nd edition[12].
  • automated teller machine's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/AutomatedTeller[13].
  • automated teller machine's different from is recorded as Bankomat[14].
  • automated teller machine's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000911[15].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include self-service machine[5] and automated cash handling[6].

Why It Matters

automated teller machine ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (647 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 123 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . thoughtco.com. thoughtco.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . thoughtco.com. Retrieved . thoughtco.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . thoughtco.com. Retrieved . thoughtco.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). automated teller machine. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/atm
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_atm_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{automated teller machine}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/atm}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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  1. 13h ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of self-service machine, automated cash handling
    Topic's main category Category:Automated teller machines
    Discoverer or inventor John Shepherd-Barron, Luther George Simjian, Donald Wetzel
    Different from Bankomat
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 9535, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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